190 Quotes by T.H. White

The author says people are guilty of “wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

October 20th, 1939 There don’t seem to be many people being killed yet – no hideous slaughters of gas and bacteria. But the truth is going. We are suffocating in propaganda instead of gas, slowly feeling our minds go dead.

Aviators live by hours, not by days.

Wherever they went and wherever they slept, the east wind whistled in the reeds, and the geese went over high in the starlight, honking at the stars.

It is good to put your life in other people’s hands.

Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

People are dupes, and wicked too. That is what makes it interesting to get them better.

The Queen dried her tears and looked at him, smiling like a spring shower. In a minute they were kissing, feeling like the green earth refreshed by rain. They thought that they understood each other once more – but their doubt had been planted. Now, in their love, which was stronger, there were the seeds of hatred and fear and confusion growing at the same time: for love can exist with hatred, each preying on the other, and this is what gives it its greatest fury.

All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.